Funerals in the age of COVID
Photo by Ashim D'Silva
By Troy Hutchison
In the last eight months, the world has gone through drastic changes to keep itself safe during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Events have been canceled, celebrations have been put on hold, classes gone from in-person to virtual classrooms, and these are just some examples of how society has had to adapt to the new COVID-19 world.
No matter how much society adapts to the situation we currently live in, nothing can prepare a person for a COVID-style funeral experience.
When talking about this, I am not speaking just about COVID-19 related deaths; I’m talking about any death that comes during this time and the changes a family has to make to keep the funeral safe.
That is something I recently went through, and it was an experience that I thought ...